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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 15499
Released: March 26, 1997 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman play retired, down-on-their-luck outlaws who pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey. Richard Harris is an ill-fated interloper, a colorful killer-for-hire called English Bob. And Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Gene Hackman is the sly and brutal local sheriff whose brand of law enforcement ranges from unconventional to ruthless.
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Description of Unforgiven:
Winner of four Academy Awards, including best picture, director, supporting actor, and best editing, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as one of the greatest and most thematically compelling Westerns ever made. "The movie summarized everything I feel about the Western," said Eastwood at the time of the film's release. "The moral is the concern with gunplay." To illustrate that theme, Eastwood stars as a retired, once-ruthless killer-turned-gentle-widower and hog farmer. He accepts one last bounty-hunter mission--to find the men who brutalized a prostitute--to help support his two motherless children. Joined by his former partner (Morgan Freeman) and a cocky greenhorn (Jaimz Woolvett), he takes on a corrupt sheriff (Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact of violence and its corruption of the soul. Dedicated to Eastwood's mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel and featuring a colorful role for Richard Harris, it's arguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement. --Jeff Shannon
Unforgiven Reviews:
SUPERB 
2009-12-12 - IT'S AMAZING HOW AN EARLY 90'S MOVIE CAN BE DISPLAYED AT THIS PICTURE QUALITY. AN INCREDIBLE FIND WITH AN UNEXPLAINABLE LOW PRICE. AN OBLIGATED BUY FOR BOTH MOVIE LOVERS AND BLU RAY FANS. 2 TUMBS UP.
Unforgiven
2009-12-08 - This movie is wonderful! My dad loves clint eastwood movies and I know he will love this one! Thanks for getting movie to me so fast!
unforgiven 
2009-12-02 -
DVD has no format to select scenes,etc. Also it was captioned with no way to remove the captions.
DVD also ran for approximately 12-15 mins and could no longer be played.
My fault that the time ran out to return the item.
So Gritty And Real, Yet Still. . . 
2009-12-02 - Wow. Does this epic, award-winning Western look and feel like the real deal. It's gritty, rugged, brutal, dirty, inhumane--yet tender and poignant when it needs to be. You can't beat Clint Eastwood as both actor and director; fellow cinematic heavyweights Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris give UNFORGIVEN plenty of star power. And the story--a former bounty hunter coming out of retirement to avenge the disfigurement of a working girl--is as compelling as the day is long. So what is it about UNFORGIVEN that so disappointed me, and continues to disappoint each time I pull up a chair to watch this very well-made film?
Dichotomy. It's a trait we all possess, to some degree. It's certainly present with Hackman's character as Sheriff Little Bill Daggett--a dedicated public servant on the one hand and brutal thug and bully on the other. That's a character contrast that's believable; we can see, and understand, both sides of the coin Little Bill represents. But Eastwood's character presents a whole new set of problems (for me, anyway). Bill Munny is a quiet, soft-spoken, gentle widower with two young children. From his mannerisms it becomes evident he wouldn't harm a fly; he reluctantly agrees to accept the bounty because he's so desperately poor, but approaches the job with dread and despair. As this film moves to its violent climax the viewer is treated to such a transformation of Bill Munny that I was unable to suspend disbelief. The wild-eyed, almost evil incarnate killer Munny became was simply too much--even after he was so savagely provoked. Thus I was aptly disappointed in UNFORGIVEN, a great visual epic with too much to digest.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning
A bleak look at a bleak world
2009-11-29 - This is what Eastwood is good at. Heavy emotional dramas that portray the world in a far less stylized view than other films. Given all of Eastwood's experience with Westerns, it's only natural that one of his first big hits as a director presents a more realistic view of the Old West. Definitely not a film you will want to miss if you love Westerns or Clint Eastwood. Just don't expect to feel particularly cheery afterwards.
